Tomorrow

Thursday is weigh in day again.  Not feeling a whole lot of confidence right now.  Lana thought I was retaining water and I feel like I have been.  I feel bloated and large last couple of days.  I am hoping it's just a feeling and not really an issue.  I am 7 lbs away from 299, and I need a couple of pounds off this week.  Big day coming again Saturday, and I need everything to keep rolling.  Crossing my fingers and update to follow in the morning.................

On a lighter note, no pun intended, my flight is booked for TO in November.  Looking forward to the Golf Canada meetings for 2 days.

Busted!

I was informed today at work, that one of my staff saw my post about the suit.  She has indicated she posted something but I don't see it attached.  I might give her the benefit of the doubt...............

So, on Monday October 18th, it is orange day at the office, but I will wear my wedding suit as I promised.   Thank god, I didn't promise to wear my birthday suit!

It's Over........

Well, the holiday is over and I think I survived it pretty well.  Last night was round two of the traditional thanksgiving meals.  Mark, Laura and Liam came for supper.  It was a great meal.  I avoided the potatoes.  Had way to much turkey, some stuffing and the broccoli salad Laura bought.  And I had to have the pumpkin pie.  By 9:30 last night, I felt the sluggish come on,from the extra carbs and sugar I ate.  And during the night I had quite a restless sleep.  My tummy was upset and I had some pretty severe heartburn.  Pepcid helped reduce the feeling.  It wasn`t simply the pie, adding a bit of the broccoli and I chose to sample a gross cabbage roll, had a part in the restless night. 

I am reading the book that Dr Chanh has developed about the program.  It answers lots of questions I had and still have.  The interesting line I have melted into my brain is this, carbs do not make you gain weight, they block u from losing weight.  Meaning, if u want to lose any weight at all, u have to reduce the amount of carbs that you take in.  Reducing allows for the body to burn tha stored sugar and fats u have in your system.  If u eat carbs all the time, then the body only uses what your taking in, and then stores the excess for later use.  That`s where we gain our weight.  So by reducing the carbs for the program, the body is forced to take the stored sugars to fire the heart.  There is where the weight loss comes in.

So,as it stands, I am so excited about the end results.  I am making a plan to have a goal weight.  I will reveal the magic number in a few days.  I put on 3 shirts yesterday that are brand new and never worn because I had been able to get them on.  The fit pretty awesome.  I also resurrected 2 pairs of pants that were lonesome in my closest. Saturday I took my wedding suit to the cleaners.  I will be wearing it, for my long term service award this Saturday in Regina.  It is actually big.  15 years ago, Laurel and I were married.  I am now less mass then I was then.  I also promised my staff, that I would wear that suit to work one day, when it fit.  It looks like I gotta live up to that promise.  However, unless one of them is reading my blog and comments that they are holding me to it, then I guess they won`t know I can wear it!!!!

Excercise Partners

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Thanksgiving Saturday

I survived!!!!!  Supper at the Simpson's was fantastic.  Turkey and the fixing's, salads, appetizers and the topper of all meals, pumpkin pie!  And the pie was made by Laurel, who I believe makes it even better then my mother.  Pumpkin Pie is my absolute favorite dessert.  I had a small, somewhat insignificant piece, if there is such.  It was fabulous.  I was able to stay away from any significant amount of carbs, and stayed with the turkey, broccoli salad and coleslaw.  Had a few crackers and some dip as well.  This was about the same "cheating" as I did with Laurels' golf wind up.  It was a good day.......

tomorrow is day two...................hopefully I can be in control one more day.

Measurements

So.......after 40 days of the program, here is the update on my stats:

Neck 18.5
Shoulders 50.5
Underarm 14.5
Chest 51
Tummy 55
Waist 50
Hips 49
Thigh 24.75
Knee 18
Calf 18.25
Ankle 10.5

total inches lost 30.75

There is an issue with my waist and the measurement.  I know it is less, but it appears we have measured differently a couple of times.  I know I have 50 waist pants and I have about 4-5 inches of room in them now,  My chest kills me.  I was a 60 at the start...............................

Turkey weekend.  I am rewarding my progress with some pumpkin pie.  It will be a small piece, but it will be a treat!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone......

Reward Time

Today was a good day for me in that I reached the single digit 300's after 40 days.  It's a big step as now I am just about out of the dreaded 300's and moving downwards to the 2's.  I will soon have to make a goal for myself so that I can achieve maintenance.  That goal needs to be attainable and realistic.  I have lots of thinking to do!!!

I celebrated tonight having extra chicken for supper, croutons in my Caesar salad and some bacon bits as well.. OMG.....................me bad!!!!!!